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State Police report arresting a woman they say drove into two women and three children around 5 p.m. at Rte. 145 near North Shore Road. One child, 5, died, State Police say.

Autumn Harris, 42, of Beacon Hill, is expected to be arraigned on charges of motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Chelsea District Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

State Police say an infant, 2 months, was taken to Mass. General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The other child, 2, was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening, as were the two women.

State Police add a woman in the car was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.

Preliminary investigation indicates all five victims were together in the median which divides both sides of Route 145. They were at the crosswalk in the median apparently waiting to cross when struck.

We have the female operator under arrest at the State Police-Revere Barracks. Investigation is ongoing to determine scope of charges. We are responding a drug recognition expert to the barracks to assess the operator for potential impairment by narcotics.

The term usually refers to opiates or opioids, which are called narcotic analgesics. In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology. For example, narcotics control legislation in Canada, USA, and certain other countries includes cocaine and cannabis as well as opioids (see also conventions, international drug). Because of this variation in usage, the term is best replaced by one with a more specific meaning (e.g. opioid).[12]

Weed is a drug people use to get stoned for recreational use. Don't f'ing drive if you're high on pot: whether you vape it like the woman who killed those two children, smoke it or take it as an edible. Contrary to popular stoner myth, YOU DO NOT drive better when you're stoned!

Detrimental effects of cannabis use vary in a dose-related fashion, and are more pronounced with highly automatic driving functions than with more complex tasks that require conscious control, whereas with alcohol produces an opposite pattern of impairment.

Please explain how you came up with such an educated answer based on zero information? Or maybe you're just trying to change the subject...RIP to that poor child and prayers for the one still in the hospital.

The cops indicated she may have been on something. No one is coming for your bong. A 5 year old was killed and all the wake and bake crowd wants to talk about is "hey man, weed isn't a narcotic, you know like, technically."

That is scientific fact. I can post the molecular schematics and systemic pathways if you like. THC and opioids are very different molecules and act on different biochemical systems.

It is important to understand this if we are to understand why people select the drugs they do and what the impact is on various skilled activities (including driving). Pretending that it is all the same may be your personal "semantic truth", but it is far from the scientific reality of these substances.

Because, by the word they used the first is somehow forbidden for checking for weed? That doesn't seem to make sense, now does it? Again, no need to impress us with what you think is superior knowledge of science and definitions. That rest of us are past that.

Wow, I feel like I've stumbled into bizarro world where online trolls are paid heavily to discount and argue any negative mentions of weed on the internet. One toddler is dead, another is in the hospital and all some of you seem to care about is argue whether weed is as bad as alcohol? Losers.